Max Beckmann / Self Portrait with Stiff Hat / 1921

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait with Stiff Hat
1921
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Creator Name: Beckmann, Max
Creator Nationality: European; Northern European; German
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1884 - 1950
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Max Beckmann
Title: Self Portrait with Stiff Hat
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1921
Creation End Date: 1921
Creation Date: 1921
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: etching
Dimensions: H.12-9/16 x W.9-9/16 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: P.12,538
Credit Line: F.S. Winston Fund
Copyright: ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / COPY-DAN, Copenhagen
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

In this 1921 self-portrait Beckmann depicts himself as a dandy with a bowler hat, stiff collar, and cigarette. The profile of a cat sitting on a table behind him to the left and an ashtray and kerosene lamp to his right fill out the tight composition. Beckmann created about eighty self-portraits over a career that spanned virtually half a century. He used his own image and persona to delve into the complexities of the human soul, showing the variety of selves that make up an individual. In Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat, Beckmann shows that he is every bit the modern man, confident in his powers of observation and cool, critical detachment.

AMICA ID: MIA_.P.12,538
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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